TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  3188
SUBJECT: GRB050408: MASTER optical observations  
DATE:    05/04/08 18:01:34 GMT
FROM:    Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs  <gcncirc@observ.inetcomm.ru>

V. Lipunov, A.Krylov, V.Kornilov, G.Borisov, D.Kuvshinov,
A.Belinski,  M.Kuznetsov,  S.Potanin, G.Antipov,
E.Gorbovskoy, N.Tyurina


Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow

After  HETE alert 3711   MASTER robotic telescope
(http://observ.pereplet.ru)
had  imaging  the corresponding area of the sky  under the bad weather
conditions at 17h21m53.75 UT (1h 09m after GRB Time, OUR SUNSET ).
There are no new object up to 14.7 on unfiltered image of the error box
(30s exposition, 6 square  degrees field).

The JPG-images   are available at
http://observ.pereplet.ru/images/GRB050408/1.jpg
This is preliminary result.
Observations are continuing.
This message may be cited.

This work is supported by Moscow Union "Optic" and partly supported by
RFFI 04-02-16411.
Mailto: lipunov@sai.msu.ru